How to run a bashscript no matter what directory u stand in?

kickarzt · 03-16-2010, 05:24 AM

How to run a bashscript no matter where u stand in the directory?

linuxlover.chaitanya · 03-16-2010, 05:29 AM

By using a complete absolute path to the script?

vinaytp · 03-16-2010, 05:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kickarzt

How to run a bashscript no matter where u stand in the directory?

May be by keeping the script in /usr/bin/ directory, Provided /usr/bin path added in PATH environment variable and you have root privileges.

OR

Add path of the directory where the scripts exists to PATH environment variable

Better set PATH variable in ~/.bash_profile.

Code:

$PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin:/your/directory/where/script/present
export $PATH

Now execute

Code:

source ~/.bash_profile

kickarzt · 03-16-2010, 06:03 AM

Thank for the answers!

jamescondron · 03-16-2010, 06:53 AM

Personally, because playing with $PATH can lead to some behaviour you don't always want, I set subroutines in my .bashrc; colour paging (Which grabbed from some website, forgotten the name, but I dare say the author of this solution wont mind)

Code:

# syntax highlighting pager
colpage () {
/usr/share/vim/vim71/macros/less.sh "$*"
}